ticket, too. but he wants to make sure they don t get the idea he s some northeastern liberal. here s new jersey governor chris christie defending putting gay marriage up for a vote in his state and, by the way, vetoing it to get it there. let s listen. put it on the referendum and i ll be ruled by what the people of new jersey want to do. but i am not i vetoed the bill. and if they passed it again, i d veto it again. do you not suspect the reason they ll put it on is because there s a reasonable chance it would lose? i think it s a jump ball in new jersey. as it is in most places. basketball terminology there but it s political reality. jennifer, i think what christie wants to do is convince the rest of the conservative country that his party, that he d be a great rock em sock em running mate for mitt romney if he runs and this is his issue. he s staked out a conservative position for an east coast guy for many purposes but for the primary opportunity here it gives him to
year. in a big win for virginia democrats and a big rebuke to virginia republicans. sex and politics are colliding now in three big states right now. run by three high-profile governors in a way that could tilt the national political balance. in virginia, it s abortion politics with a republican legislature overreaching and a republican governor having to backpedal. in maryland, it s same-sex marriage with a democratic governor poised to make his state the eighth to legalize same-sex marriage. opponents say they re going to challenge the law and get on the ballot in november. in new jersey, republican governor chris christie is very well known. there he is. he vetoed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage and wants to put it on the ballot in november. at a time when most thought the economy would dominate all political fights this year, remember the economy, stupid, back in the old days? cultural issues have come creeping back, you might say roaring back. what does this mean for 2012 poli
here it comes, that his wife drives a couple of cadillacs. a couple of cadillacs. that will endear him to blou blu collar voters. republicans like jeb bush fear the election is slip away from them. the new battleground map suggests they may be right. mitt was in detroit to push his plan but the optics didn t help. 1200 people there at ford field where the lions play football which means romney dressed 65,000 empty seats. who is the guy s advance man on this one? doesn t help that romney opposed the auto bailout and that s wildly popular in michigan. plus, culture wars. the ultrasound bill in virginia, not to mention the recently dropped personhood bill there, threatens to reaffirm for millions of independent women that the gop has lurched too far to the right on issues important to them. and the oscars are sunday night. this year it looks like liberal hollywood plans to stick it to the right wing by celebrating a french movie. another one about paris and a third one spotlight
a couple of cadillacs. that will endear him to blou blu collar voters. republicans like jeb bush fear the election is slip away from them. the new battleground map suggests they may be right. mitt was in detroit to push his plan but the optics didn t help. 1200 people there at ford field where the lions play football which means romney dressed 65,000 empty seats. who is the guy s advance man on this one? doesn t help that romney opposed the auto bailout and that s wildly popular in michigan. plus, culture wars. the ultrasound bill in virginia, not to mention the recently dropped personhood bill there, threatens to reaffirm for millions of independent women that the gop has lurched too far to the right on issues important to them. and the oscars are sunday night. this year it looks like liberal hollywood plans to stick it to the right wing by celebrating a french movie. another one about paris and a third one spotlighting white southern racism in the 1960s. finally, let me fin
mitt romney victory in south carolina. the latest real clear politics average romney holds eight point lead over second place newt gingrich. jon huntsman had just over 5% of the support. he is endorsing mitt romney after bowing out of the race. how much will huntsman departure, if any, help the romney campaign? jennifer donahue, public policy fellow at the eisenhower institute at gettysburg college. and robert bera a reporter with the post and the courier. jennifer, is this a zero net gain and loss because jon huntsman s endorsement only represents 5% of the vote there if that? well, that 5% could be significant especially when you look below what romney s doing into gingrich, santorum and paul site. i think if romney can pick up that 5% and maybe get some of the tea party vote you talked about earlier he could be in a good position. the bottom line, huntsman didn t have the resources for the air war this has become.